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Comparable Wage Index

This index for index of the prevailing wage for college graduates was created by Lori Taylor of Texas A&M University under the sponsorship of the National Center for Education Research. It covers 800 labor markets from 1997 to 2004, and can also be broken down by school districts, MSAs, states and census regions. It appears to be the only dataset that compares wage levels in different regional markets.